Education.
By Paul A. L. Hall
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A brief summary of some of the articles:
Modern Education is in the Stone Age
In all fairness, I really don't mean to insult the stone age by comparing the failure of the modern education system with them, but it was the best term I could come up with. What I'm saying is that the mind readily absorbs and remembers input if it is the correct sort. Something the institutions have ignored perhaps even since the stone age itself.
... our poor dear oblivious institutionialists have reduced contemporary higher education to nothing more than a luxury item of the utmost extremes in costliness.
Enough Education to Read the Road Signs
Hitler was once heard to say that the Slavonic races of central Asia and of Europe after what he hoped to be their conquest by his Reich, would be denied an education, or, as he said, "...just enough to be able to read the road signs".
Access to higher education has become the privilege of an elitist few and that has ruined a perfectly good world and turned it into a virtual, revolving, little blue mediocre Five-and-Ten orbiting an average star in an average universe. I'm seeing some of the greatest minds in history out there flipping hamburgers.
What is Learning Really Made of?
It's a cooperation between the brain, the endocrine system, and the environment.
Boredom destroys minds, it doesn't educate them. What is learned by the boredom of wrote is learned at the expense of the preponderance of the person's innate capability to reason. Teaching therefore has at least two objectives: the first is to provide the teaching points and the second is to stimulate the mind.
The Conflict Between Knowledge and Reason
The acquisition of knowledge usurps the developmental time necessary to form the capacity of reason within an individual.
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Act Knowledge Mentus (The Conflict Between Knowledge and Reason, Part Two)
Next time you seek institutionalism, real the label. The warning label. Then go ahead. I suppose you're the type that only wants to seem learned. After all, when you get in trouble for what you truly lack, you can always just cook the books like your predecessors.
The startling conclusion is that any subject when taught in the correct manor can be completely absorbed by any human being and much more quickly than originally imagined. Here I reiterate what I have already postulated in previous papers, and that is that the modern and classic educational processes and institutions of learning actually IMPEDE learning. The real environment triggers learning.
It Takes Time for Memories to Form
If the mind is convinced that what is being considered is something that must be dealt with it will then begin to consider aspects of what must be learned. Though the acquisition of memories can be very fast, it takes time for the correct input to be accepted.
Man Not Capable of 21st Century
The mind is capable of incredible things, but it has been kept back from anything more than the least of it's potential by the very societies it portends to uphold. In fact, those societies have kept the human mind back from it's capabilities since the dawn of mankind and the 21st century society threatens to be no different.
A brief summary of some of
the weblogs.
Substance abuse especially among students is no longer just a health or social problem, it's a learning problem, especially in institutions of higher learning where the student is more and more on his or her own.
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